There was motive for the then South African government to kill Mozambique’s Samora Machel, and there is plenty of evidence to back up these claims.
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM: FOLLOWING an urgent application by the Namibian Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation the Namibian High Court has ordered the eviction of 56 families who have illegally occupied 10 Government farms in the Kunene, Omaheke and Otjozondjupa regions. The illegal settlers, who allegedly raised Cain on the farms they occupied in November last […]
leaders SACP Gauteng: RIGHT TO REPLY Sechaba ka’Nkosi’s article, “SACP split over who will lead” (June 19 to 25) uses the politburo meeting held on June 16 as a basis for so-called disunity. From our understanding of South African Communist Party procedures, nominations start at branch level, then go to districts and are finalised at […]
Swapna Prabhakaran A quiet and mostly unseen battle has been raging for months around KwaZulu-Natal’s waste dumps. Two waste dumps were officially closed down last year and another collapsed in a disaster that left the province with a hazardous waste-disposal crisis. The chaos began after floods and mudslides last September wreaked havoc with the province’s […]
Jack Lundin: PERSONAL HISTORY Until a few weeks ago you could have seen him on the corner of Pretoria Street and Quartz: filthy dirty, stinking of glue, begging from cars. Twelve years old and one of the small army of Hillbrow street urchins. My notes on Elias start at 9.50 am on October 1 1996, […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Disillusionment with the African National Congress and hopes of pulling off surprises in next year’s general election made up the vision that guided the United Democratic Movement at its springboard first national congress at the weekend. It became evident that while the black leaders of the party would launch a battle to lure […]
Province ANC Mukoni T Ratshitanga Northern Province Premier, Ngoako Ramathlodi, who breathed a sigh of relief when he regained his position as provincial chair of the African National Congress last weekend, faces a tough challenge of rooting out ethnic tensions. The province is made up of three former homelands – Lebowa, Venda and Gazankulu – […]
Brett Hilton-Barber `I’m an expert in dating early man,” said an American woman. She looked around the conference room where hundreds of scientists were mingling amid fake rocks and designer bushman paintings, and caught the eye of her palaeontologist husband. “That’s my early man,” she smiled. “You could say we’re still dating.” The couple were […]
Angella Johnson: VIEW FROM A BROAD Me, jump out of a plane at 3 000m? You must be joking. No way! Not this side of life. I could not have emphasised the point more strongly when my editor suggested, with an evil grin, that I try skydiving for this column. I gave him one of […]
Electronic commerce is on the rise on the World Wide Web. But there are still a number of problems in this new market place, write Alex Brummer and Nicholas Bannister There comes a point with a technological process when the world wakes up to the possibilities of what can be achieved. A decade ago the […]